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flaytor Eesartas. Illastratedly Edmund J. Sullivan. (G. Bell and Sons,

6s.);--This book is not one which on the face of it one would consider lent itself to illustration. However, Mr. Sullivan has succeeded in producing pictures which are thoroughly in the spirit of the text. Though the style is of the old German black- and:White artists, there is great originality irt these work's. The rude and cumbrous power of Carlyle 's words finde its counterpart these' drawingS.. . Thoughts either huddled thgether, or flung shout with Jotun energy, find their interpretation in the forcible lines and admirably disposed masses of Mr. Sullivan's drawings. 'tie to lie_boped that this artist will treat some other book in this way,—that is, by enriching the work with his own thoughts about it in lines, and with no attempt, to merely illustrate the

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